2021年5月28日 · Anne Fairfax Washington. The story of the first mistress of Mount Vernon: debauchery, victim-blaming, and life of a woman of color in the 1700-1800s

Anne was a woman of charm, grace, and culture. She and Lawrence had several children (none of whom survived childhood): Jane (1744-1745), Fairfax (1747), Mildred (1748-1749) and Sarah (1750-1754). Sarah was her father's heir. Had she lived she would have inherited the property now known as Mount Vernon instead of her uncle George Washington.

2024年10月7日 · Suspicions are that Anne Fairfax, Mount Vernon's first mistress and the wife of Lawrence Washington, the President's brother, was a woman of colour whose mother was born in the Bahamas. A number of George Washington's historians have pointed out that when Anne's brother, George William, visited his Fairfax aunts in England, he had been utterly ...

Anne Fairfax Washington Lee (1728-1761) was born in 1728 in Salem, Essex Co., Massachusetts, British Colonial America. She was the daughter of William Fairfax and Sarah Walker. She married Lawrence Washington on 19 Jul. 1743, and they had four children; widowed 26 Jul. 1752. She married George Lee on 16 Dec. 1752, and they had three children.

2024年9月24日 · On July 19, 1743, fifteen-year-old Anne Fairfax, one of the most eligible young ladies in Virginia, is married to Lawrence Washington at Belvoir, her father’s mansion. Lawrence Washington, c. 1743, unknown artist

Although George Washington leased Mount Vernon from Lawrence Washington's widow, Ann Fairfax Washington Lee, beginning in 1754, he did not formally own Mount Vernon until Ann's death in 1761. George Washington began living in the home that his father built in 1734, but greatly expanded both the Mansion and his land holdings during his 38 years ...

1990年12月15日 · The records, which document the only full-scale ecclesiastical trial ever held in Colonial Virginia, paint a complex portrait of Ann Fairfax Washington, first mistress of Mount Vernon, who...

2024年10月14日 · Anne Fairfax was born in Salem, Massachusetts in 1728. She was christened in Marblehead in 1730. She married first, on Jul 19, 1743, Lawrence Washington. He was the elder brother of George Washington. Anne married second Colonel George Lee. Children were: Jane Washington. Fairfax Washington. Mildred Washington. Sarah Washington.

When Anne Fairfax was born on 17 September 1728, in Salem, Culpeper, Virginia, British Colonial America, her father, William Fairfax, was 36 and her mother, Sarah Walker, was 29. She married Lawrence Augustus Washington on 19 July 1743, in Prince William, Virginia, British Colonial America.

2011年11月28日 · Ann Fairfax Washington Lee’s life was better documented than many women of her era since she belonged to three notable families and was one of the central figures in a lurid scandal that rocked colonial Virginia.